Baby food among items pulled up from shelves
dubai — The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHP) has issued six circulars to the relevant bodies to withdraw a baby food product which could be contaminated with salmonella according to the request of the manufacturer.
Dr Amin Hussein Al Amiri, assistant undersecretary for Public Health Policy and Licensing, and chairman for the Supreme National Pharmacovigilance Committee, said the circular was issued for the withdrawal of baby food produced by the French company Lactalis International. “The manufacturer had voluntarily withdrawn all batches of the products that have been packed in Craon plant because of the possible contamination with salmonella agona, which causes fever and diarrhoea.”
The product is under registration in the drug department of the MoHP and the authorised agent has requested to withdraw the said product from the country’s markets.
The circular also warns against the use of unlicensed addiction remedies and cosmetics containing a high concentration of mercury, a herbal formula for weight loss, nutritional supplements that cause high blood pressure and skin whitening products. “All people must stop using it,” he said.
He said the US Food and Drug Administration and Federal Trade Committee have announced warnings about 12 products that falsely help to quit the addiction of opiates. According to a press statement issued by the ministry of health, the products are: Opiate Freedom Center Opiate Freedom 5-Pack), U4Life, LLC (Mitadone), CalmSupport, LLC (CalmSupport), TaperAid (TaperAid and TaperAid Complete), Medicus Holistic Alternatives LLC (Natracet), NutraCore Health Products, LLC (Opiate Detox Pro), Healthy Healing, LLC (Withdrawal Support), Soothedrawal, Inc. (Soothedrawal), Choice Detox Center, Inc. (Nofeel), GUNA, Inc. (GUNA-ADDICT 1), and King Bio, Inc. (AddictaPlex).
Dr Al Amiri said that Dubai Municipality provided the ministry with a warning of three Chinese products that contain high amounts of mercury adding that the names of the products are not recorded in drug department which include Yalan Cream, Slimming Body Capsule Plus and Hao Meng Specific Wipe Off Fleck Cream.
The ministry warning also included Tarty Slim Plus Capsules produced by the Thai company Rawinnipa because it contains two unwritten components that affect the people with heart and high blood pressure problems negatively, which are ‘sibutramine and SibutramineDesmethylsibutramine’.
The ministry also announced that Golden Bull capsules by the Italian company Don Vigaron,
The manufacturer had voluntarily withdrawn all batches of the products (baby food) that have been packed in Craon plant because of possible contamination with Salmonella Agona, which causes fever and diarrhea.” Dr Amin Hussein Al Amiri, assistant undersecretary, Public Health Policy and Licensing
which is formula for raising ecstasy for men, has unwritten components ‘sildenafil’ that severely reduce blood pressure.
Products of Flawless Beauty sold through the website www.flawlessbeautyandskin.com also contain dangerous components. He said that people who have information about these products must report to the ministry and if any one used a product and had side effects, he/ she must fill a form on the website www.cpd-pharma.ae or call 042301448 email: pv@moh.gov.ae or call toll-free number: 80011111 to report.